Do-do-do-do-do totally not pretending to do this right now oh
Oh, oh, hi. Hi there. Um, so yeah. I totally didn't just
Pretend like I was working on my wheels so that we could start this video
There all right that might be a little bit better, so you need to replace the bearings in your profile or Madeira hub
But you don't know where to start
Let's make a video about that. We're still not quite there yet
Okay, well in this video
I'm gonna be talking about how you replace the bearings as well as remove the axle
Replace the driver all these different things you can do just from this video
So I'm gonna get the camera in a better place finally, and we'll get right into it, okay
finally an angle we can work with so the first step to replacing the bearings in your profile or Madeira hub is
getting rid of everything as far as axle nuts and
Hardware goes Peg's hub guards all of that stuff
Everything except for the jam nuts and then once you get all of that done
You're going to take the jam nut off from the driver side the side
It has your driver on it you want to take this jam nut off leave the other side
Jam nut on because we're gonna need that one on
sometimes
their pain in the butt to get off
Okay, so once you get the drive side jam nut off and you leave the non-drive side jam nut on
You take out your driver
And you're most likely going to want to do this with the hub upside-down
Because if you don't you'll pull out the pawls and springs
And then you have to collect them and it becomes a pain in the butt, so we're just gonna let the driver
drop off the hub
Make sure all the paws and springs are there
Everything looks good to me
So we can set that aside
Now
You're not doing yet because most likely there's a little spacer inside your hub you're gonna want to take that one out to
Make note of the direction that it's facing
There's a little lip on it, and you always want that lip facing the inside of the hub
Set that aside as well, and now you're ready to take the axle out and the way you do that quite literally
Stated on their website is if you don't have a press or anything like that
You use a rubber mallet and you hit the axle so that's what we're gonna
Do we're gonna hit the axle with the rubber mallet on the drive side with the non-drive side facing down
Keeping in mind that when you hit this and the axle comes out
Its going to come out the non-drive side so you want to make sure you got
Something soft there for it to hit or you can catch it. So it's pretty simple. We'll do that right now
It doesn't take a whole lot to get it out
Okay, so once you get the axle out the first bearing that comes out comes out with the axle
But if you look inside of our driver area on the hub there's another bearing that needs to come out
So in order to get that bearing out we need to take this bearing off of our axle which we have to do anyways
So we take off our other Jam nut
Pop off the cone and pop off the bearing sometimes it can be a pain you might have to use a little bit more force
but
Normally it should just pop
off like that
Pretty simple we can set these aside and what we do from here is flip the wheel over
Put the axle back into the hub the correct away
We want to make sure that the axle goes all the way into the bearing and seats in there properly
So we're not messing up anything or bending anything and then from there
We're going to hammer it out the exact same way that we did the other side
Keeping in mind that the axle is probably going to come through the hub and you're going to need to catch it or
Sure that it lands on something soft, so that doesn't hurt your threads or hurt your axle, so we're going to hammer that out now
This bearing does not want to come out
All right well clearly it's not gonna come out this way so
I'm gonna have to get a couple blocks of wood and really hammer on it
Okay, so what we're gonna want to be sure of
When we're doing this is that the blocks of wood are going against the?
hub
itself that outer race that sticks out and
Not the flanges because we don't want to break the hub that would really suck
so
Now we've got a more sturdy base to hammer on than our legs
let's get this bearing out I
Don't know how well you can see inside there, but it is not moving at all when one hammer doesn't work. We'll try another
All right goodness, this is crazy There is obviously a reason that profile
Recommends that you use a press to do this
All right, let's try it this way
If we can see in here a little bit, maybe get it to focus the bearing is coming out
Just very slowly and now that we've gone down through two rubber mallets. We're gonna try
To put the nut on the axle here
and if you're using three-eighths
you'd be screwing the bolt into the axle rather than hammering on where the bolt screws in itself make sure it's screwed on and
flush
So we can't hurt anything
We're gonna use a real hammer this time
Oh
Now I know that it doesn't tell you to hit the axle with a real hammer
But desperate times call for desperate measures as long as we make sure that the threads don't get messed up. I think we're okay ah
That hurt, but that was worth it oh my goodness a five-year-old bearing coming out of the hub
Finally there's anything to be learned from this you should probably use a press
And if you can't and you absolutely cannot you need to make sure if you're gonna hit it with a real hammer
That you're not going to damage your axle or your hub you get the blocks of wood
Just put the safety measures in place so that you're not going to ruin your hub or your axle by doing it this way
So let's get back to the other camera and keep going okay
So now that you got both of the bearings out of the hub you're ready for your replacement bearings and these bearings are
17 millimeters by 30 millimeters by 7 millimeters, I've got some new ones right here
You can see let me get them out of the packaging
That we get it in the right light with the camera. We'll see that it says
17 by 30 by 7 you can get these from profile or you can get them somewhere else
My suggestion is to get them from profile or get them from your local bike shop just because that's the way you should do things
but the first step to getting these back into your hub is
actually
Cleaning out the inside of your hub
Both surfaces you want to inspect them look for cracks look for anything that could be messed up and from there
We're gonna put in the non-drive side bearing
First and in order to put the non-drive side bearing back into your hub the first thing you're going to want to do is
Grab your axle again get your non-drive side
You're gonna slide the bearing onto the axle
You're going to slide
the cone spacer onto the axle
And then you're gonna put your jam nut back onto the axle
Once your jam nuts on we can take a little bit of grease put it around the bearing itself
We can get our non Drive side side of the hub facing up and we're going to put it in just like the axle goes
Take our mallet and gently hammer it back in because this is the side that goes in pretty easily, so
It was pretty simple and then we can take a rag and we can wipe off the excess grease and
Now we're ready for the other side, which is the pain in the butt side but?
What we do to put this bearing in is we get our other side bearing
We get our driver
Because we're actually going to be using the driver to put the bearing back in we're going to use the driver as a press
To put the bearing back into the hub so in order to do that the best way to do
this is
To take out the pause in the springs and when you do this you want to make sure that you keep track of them
I'm just going to take out the pause because the springs usually keep themselves in pretty well
So we're just gonna take out the pause and set them aside
Just like that now. We're going to want to put a little bit of grease on
this bearing not a ton because
There should be no grease inside where your driver pause and Springs are all working
So from there. We're going to slide the bearing onto the axle
Then we're going to slide our driver onto the axle
Then we're going to take our
axle nut
we're not going to use the jam nut because
The jam nut has very thin threads on it
They could easily get messed up, and we don't want to mess up such a specialized piece of hardware when we could
If something goes wrong mess up an axle nut because axle nuts are easy to get cheap
So we're gonna thread the axle nut on to the axle
Okay
So in order to keep the axle in place and keep things
solid while we're tightening down on the axle nut to tighten the driver and push the bearing into the hub we're going to employ a
trick that I did in a previous video in
order to do this so what we're going to do is put the axle into the frame and
Tighten down an axle nut against the frame so that effectively
We're putting the wheel on the bike like we normally would
But with it sticking out so that we can tighten the axle nut down on the other side
And push our bearing in when you do this you're gonna want to make sure that you get it pretty tight so that
nothing can move
Okay, so now that we've got the wheel locked in place so the axle and the wheel cannot move
We're ready to start tightening our driver against the bearing to push it into the hub but first before we do that
We want to take off the driver and make sure that the bearing is where it's going to need to be
So we're not just tightening the driver against the bearing which is tightening against the inside of the hub
So it's actually going to go in to the place
That's designated for it, so I've got it seated a little bit in there
I'm gonna put the driver back on okay, so a note to my future self if you use a washer
You got to pay attention to where your drivers at because at a certain point you're going to reach this
Smooth part of your axle and the washers not going to be able to go any further so either
you need to use a washer with a hole bigger than this size of the axle or
You need to figure something else out and my something else is an old jamb nut that I hollowed out
that's actually a washer see like it just goes onto here and
This is basically designed to go on right here, so I realized that not everybody is going to have one of these Jam nuts
That's hollowed out so what you can
Do is you can take your old bearing and you can put it against the driver and then titin against that?
Because your bearing is bigger than that smooth part of the axle
So it won't get stuck on there so what I'm gonna. Do now is I'm gonna put my GM nut washer
against the driver
I'm gonna put the bearing on here. Anyways, just take up space and because it's a junk bearing
And
We're going to finish tightening our
Bearing into the hub and you're going to feel a definite stop point from there, right
There's the stop point don't tighten it any more. You don't want to
Unnecessarily tighten it and mess anything up that way
So basically from there
You're done
Putting the new bearings into your hub, and you're ready for reassembly, so I'm gonna get all of this apart
And then we'll finish up the video
Ok so just in case you've never
Taken out your pause and Springs before we're gonna show how to put them back in I have a spring out right now
I'm going to see that pretty much you just
Place it into the groove where it goes and it sits in there very simply
It's important that you make sure that you know which way your paws and Springs are supposed to face if you didn't take your Springs
Out the way that I didn't it's obvious but if everything fell out or you took them all out without thinking about it
one trick that you can remember is that right side drive hubs like what I have here the paws go in and
face slash closed
counterclockwise the points on the paws
Point counterclockwise and for left-side Drive. It'll be the exact opposite, so if you're looking at the driver the way that you're seeing it
right now on camera
The paws will be in the right slot the springs will be in the left side and that is for right side drive if you
Have left side drive. It'll be the exact opposite in that the paws will close and point
Clockwise and the paws will be on the left side and the springs will be on the right side
So let's put the rest of the paws into the driver here
It's usually pretty easy to do sorry, I got a little bit of it off camera and block these last two
Because it's hard to put them in the way that I'm holding it and the last thing you need to pay attention to is this
Shim spacer whatever you want to call it this needs to go in
Between your driver and your hub bearing and the way that it goes in there is that there's a little groove in
One side of it that little groove should face the bearing inside of your hub, so it should sit
Against your driver with the groove facing up out however you're holding it
the groove should not be facing your driver and from there if we can grab the rim here and
We can put the driver
onto the axle and
To install the driver you just spin it the way that it makes your hub click which for me is
counterclockwise or the way that pause we're pointing
Left side drive. It'll be the exact opposite, and now you're ready to put your jam nut back onto your axle
One other side note that I want to point out is that you shouldn't tighten your jam nut too tight against your driver
Because if you do that when you go to put everything back together on the bike and you tighten your axle nut up against everything
Your wheels not going to spin?
or
It's not going to spin as good as it could and you're just going to have to take everything off and loosen the jam nut
And tinker with things until they work properly
So just don't tighten the jam nut too tight tighten it just against the driver and enough to where the driver is not moving
Whenever you try to wiggle it back and forth and you should be good and from here. You're ready to put your hub guards
axle nuts whatever you've got put them back on to your axle and
Put it back onto your bike so hopefully you found this useful
3/8 axles are going to be not that much different all of the steps should be about the same as
Far as how you get the axle in the bearings out once again?
I'm going to say if you have to replace the driver's side
bearing
You probably should take it somewhere to do it because you saw how difficult it was for me
And I've been working on my bike for
Years, this is not something that just anybody should do because it could really mess up your hub to the point where you completely have
To buy a new one and that's not something anybody wants, so hopefully you found this video useful if so
Thanks for watching
Thanks for watching. Even if you didn't find it useful, and we'll catch you in the next one good. Bye